Airgraph.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Mail microphotographed by a system devised by Kodak in the Second World War for air transport between troops overseas (initially in the Middle East) and home. The addressee eventually received a re-enlarged print. Source: 'Oxford Companion to the Photograph', (2005).
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Airgraph from David Mackenzie to Catherine Ochiltree., 8th April 1943.
File
Identifier: Acc.12870/8
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Includes photocopies of souvenir programmes and "The Torch" newsheet.
Dates:
8th April 1943.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts, circa 2007, of correspondence, 1939-1943, between Private David MacKenzie and his wife, Elizabeth, during his service as an army clerk in Northern Africa in the Second World War; with related ephemera.
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Transcripts of correspondence, with 'diaries' of the letters, mainly between Private David Mackenzie and his wife, Elizabeth, during his service as an army clerk, Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers.
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Correspondence and 'diary' of the letters of Private David Mackenzie.
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Correspondence of Private David Mackenzie.
Christmas airgraph received by Dr Rose M Clark, as a school girl in Rhodesia, from her aunt in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12977
Dates:
1943.